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OUTREACH

What Can We Really Learn From Chabad: A Conservative Perspective  

 Leadership Means Taking the Reins--and Sharing Them 

The 2012 Siyum Hashas: A Kiruv Perspective 

 

 PHILANTHROPY/FUNDRAISING 

Boomer Women Give More to Charity, New Study Finds 

$6 Million for Moishe House: The Good News, the Better News and the Caveats 

Hadassah Foundation Awards 13 Bat Mitzvah Year Mini-Grants 

     

NORTH AMERICA

Daylight: The Story of Obama & Israel 

 Obama's Radical Rabbi 

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Opens RNC with Invocation 

Anti-Defamation League Horrified By Alleged Hate Crime Against Jewish MSU Student 

East Lansing Police: Assault on MSU Student Likely Not Hate Crime 

 

ISRAEL

Jewish Identity Runs Strong as Russian Speaking Teens Gather in Israel 

Behind the Gas Mask 

How Israel's Most Powerful Woman is Redefining 'Good' Business 

July Lay-Offs Hit Three Year High  

 

   INTERNATIONAL

Rabbi Lau: Since When Do Germans Care About a Jewish Baby's Cry? 

Australian State Proposes Partial Circumcision Ban 

Israeli Archeologist Digs Into Nazi Death Camp

Torah Scrolls Returned to Polish Village 

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

All in the Family Day Schools 

The Camper as Philanthropist  

500 Year Old 'Feminist' Siddur Being Reissued in Hebrew 

The Talmud and Jewish Warriors 

Google vs. G-d  

Orthodox and Anorexic  

Reform Movement Initiates Pilot to Revolutionize B'nai Mitzvah  

             

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Jerusalem, Israel

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New York, NY

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Cincinnatti, OH

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jewish service MichaelWhat Can We Really Learn From Chabad: A Conservative Perspective

An Article from eJewish Philanthropy   

 

"Excuse me, are you Jewish? Have you put on tefillin today?" Many of us recognize this signature introduction to our Chabad Lubavitch brothers. 

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outreacharticle2Leadership Means Taking the Reins--and Sharing Them  

An Article from JTA 

 

Philanthropist Charles Bronfman once told me, "Leaders lead. That's what they do." Continue Reading  

 

Outreacharticle3The 2012 Siyum Hashas: A Kiruv Perspective 

An Article from Hamodia

It is the day after the 2012 Siyum HaShas at MetLife stadium and my heart is still racing, my mind is still whirling, my feet are still jumping, as they were last night. Continue Reading

 

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Fundraising1Boomer Women Give More to Charity, New Study Finds
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Women of the Baby Boom and older generations give more to charity than their male counterparts and are more likely to give, when education, income and other factors affecting giving are equal. Continue Reading 


Fundraising3$6 Million for Moishe House: The Good News, the Better News and the Caveats
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

A few months ago, the Jewish Funders Network organized a series of events to discuss the "JDub case," how as a community we support organizations as they transition from new and exciting to what we call the "mezzanine" stage of funding. Continue Reading

Fundraising5Hadassah Foundation Awards 13 Bat Mitzvah Year Mini-Grants
An Article from JTA

The Hadassah Foundation announced 13 mini-grants for organizations serving Jewish young people in 11 states. Continue Reading
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temple Namart1Daylight: The Story of Obama and Israel
An Article from Caroline Glick 

 

A few weeks ago the Obama administration put out a video extolling Obama's record on Israel.

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Obama's Radical Rabbi
An Article from JTA

The Republican Jewish Coalition took a close look at the Obama campaign's newly released list of 600+ rabbinic supporters and is calling on the campaign to sever its ties to one of them."  
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Namart2Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Opens RNC with Invocation
An Article from Matzav

Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of Yeshiva University's Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, delivered the invocation at the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida last night. Continue Reading

Anti-Defamation League 'Horrified' By Alleged Hate Crime Against MSU Student
An Article from M Live

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is in contact with law enforcement and other officials since the assault of a Jewish Michigan State University student in an alleged hate crime early Sunday in East Lansing. Continue Reading

Namart4East Lansing Police: Assault on MSU Student Likely Not Hate Crime
An Article from LSJ.com

Zachary Tennen told his parents and the police that two men with shaved heads broke his jaw at an off-campus party early Sunday morning. Continue Reading
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ejp israel1Jewish Identity Runs Strong as Russian Speaking Teens Gather in Israel
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

Close to 300 Russian speaking teens from around the world gathered in Israel for a two-week summer camp organized by the Jewish Agency and the Genesis Fund.

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israel2Behind the Gas Mask
An Article from The Jewish Week

Last week my husband took the kids to a nearby mall, bought them each an Angry Birds popsicle and picked up our family's gas masks at the building's distribution center. Continue Reading

israel3How Israel's Most Powerful Woman is Redefining 'Good' Business
An Article from Forbes

Billionaire Shari Arison, Israel's richest and most powerful woman, inherited major stakes in Carnival Cruises, Israel's Bank Hapoalim and infrastructure and real estate giant Skikun & Binui from her late father Ted Arison. Continue Reading

Israel5July Lay-Offs Hit Three Year High
An Article from Ynet News

The number of layoffs reached a three year high in July, with some 16,084 people fired from their jobs - the highest number since 2009, figures released by the Israel Employment Services revealed on Tuesday. Continue Reading
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ejp International1Rabbi Lau: Since When Do Germans Care About a Jewish Baby's Cry?
An Article from Ynet News

Jewish groups increased pressure on the German government Wednesday to speed up the passage of new legislation protecting the practice of ritual circumcision after a doctor filed a complaint with prosecutors accusing a rabbi of causing a child bodily harm. 

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Internatioanl2Australian State Proposes Partial Circumcision Ban
An Article from The Forward

An advisory governmental institution in an Australian state is recommending that it ban non-medical circumcision on boys "except for religious reasons."
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International3Israeli Archeologist Digs into Nazi Death Camp
An Article from CBS News

When Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi decided to investigate his family's unknown Holocaust history, he turned to the skill he knew best: He began to dig. Continue Reading

International4Torah Scrolls Returned to Polish Village
An Article from JTA

Two Torah scrolls, one complete and one incomplete, were found in Poland's Sokolow Podlaski district. Continue Reading
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happiness Interest1All in the Family Day Schools
An Article from The Jewish Week

Squeezed into a child's seat, Nora Lavender, mother of two young sons, sits across from her oldest, 7-year-old Shalom Yehuda, at a small wooden table in a corner of an office in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Continue Reading

Interestarticle6The Camper as Philanthropist
An Article from The Jewish Week

If "urban camp" sounds like an oxymoron to you, then "urban farm" might as well. Continue Reading

interest2500 Year Old 'Feminist' Siddur Reissued in Hebrew
An Article from Ynet News

"Women need a different prayer book from the one used by men," 16th century Rabbi Meir Benbenishti once said and decided to take the mission of creating such a prayer book upon himself. Continue Reading

Interest3The Talmud and Jewish Warriors
An Article from Tablet Magazine

At the end of the second book of Samuel, after a report of King David's last words, we are introduced to a roster of "David's warriors," the greatest fighters in his retinue. Continue Reading

Interest4Google vs. G-d
An Article from Slate

Once upon a time-say, in the 1990s-a Hasidic Jew looking for escape from her blinkered world might have gone to the library.  
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Interest5Orthodox and Anorexic
An Article from Tablet

By the time Chaya Faigie Jundef was accepted into an eating-disorder treatment program in 2007, she weighed 52 pounds. Continue Reading

Interest7Reform Movement Initiates Pilot to Revolutionize B'nai Mitzvah
An Article from eJewish Philanthropy

This week fourteen Reform congregations across North America were selected to participate in an innovative pilot program to more fully engage families, institute new methods of teaching and keep teens and their families engaged in their communities. Continue Reading
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